Adding Standards & Question Groups to Flexible Assessments

This lesson is to show you how to add standards and question groups to a Flex Assessment. As an optional tool, Standards and Question Groups that are added and alignment to an assessment help to provide more in depth opportunities to determine student needs.

The new flex assessments also have a new standards selection interface and improved Assessment Overview page for data analysis.

While these assessments are flexible, they are also new as of June 29, 2018. Please be advised that in comparison to our older Manual/Hybrid Assessments, this new assessment type at this time cannot do the following:

Create Versions, or multiple answer keys in single assessment

Configure Locked or Protected Features

Before You Get Started

Before you start building, it is encouraged to:

Have at least 1 Flexible Assessment available

Access to or ability to use standards in an assessment

Be familiar with which standards desired to be aligned to the flex assessment

2. Add Standards

By aligning Standards, you will be providing additional awareness as to which items or questions support and reinforce a particular skill or multiple skills. This also helps to see how often you are assessing a skill versus others in your assessment.

When selecting standards, you will go through a series of options to find exactly what you are looking for:

Select the providers or type of standards to search from

Select the subject areas within the selected providers

Select the grade levels within those subject areas of the selected providers

You can back and forth within these filters or options to select all of the standards or skills you are assessing in your entire assessment.

2.1.1. Select Providers

Providers are the standard sets you have access to. There can be standards that are National (available for all states) or standards that are State Specific such as California Common Core Content Standards.

Select the checkbox for each standard set you wish to find standards for.

Select Apply to confirm the selections.

To remove any selections, select Clear.

Once you press Apply, your selections will be saved and confirmed.

2.1.2. Select Subjects

Subjects are determined by the selected providers chosen.

Select the checkbox for each subject area you wish to find standards for.

Select Apply to confirm the selections.

To remove any selections, select Clear.

Once you press Apply, your selections will be saved and confirmed.

2.1.3. Select Grade Levels

Grade Levels are determined by the selected subjects and providers chosen.

Select the checkbox for each grade level you wish to find standards for.

Select Apply to confirm the selections.

To remove any selections, select Clear.

Once you press Apply, your selections will be saved and confirmed.

2.1.4. Select from Standard Collections

Collections are previously created bundles of standards to search within. Rather than use the Providers, Subjects, and Grade Levels, you can filter and find a smaller set of standards to add to this assessment.

A list of any Collections shared or created will be available to filter and refine your standards search even more. Continue to choose the standards you wish to be on the assessment.

Collections if selected will only display standards that also match filtered Providers, Subjects, and Grade Levels. It is best practice to either start with searching from Collections or clear previously filtered standards before applying a collection to your standards list.

Question Groups provide the ability to align a question to a group common theme or topic. For example, you can align questions 3 & 5 to Depth of Knowledge 2 or questions 1,3 & 5 as Constructed Response. You can even consider align them to groups called Life Science or Writing. The point is you can group them for more data analysis for an overall view of a group of questions with a common or shared theme.

When selecting question groups, you will:

Click Question Groups to open your available list

Use the Search to find Question Groups previously created. Can't find one you are looking for? Start typing your new Question Group and press Enter to save and add to your list.

Select one or moreQuestion Groups as needed to align to the item or question

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